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they will have to be got at via the Breton, or Manx, or Irish, 

 or Welsh. 



I would merely add, that these disjointed remarks are but, 

 as it were, an introduction to the subject alluded to. The subject 

 is one worthy of interest, and not yet worked out : for the purpose 

 of illustration, I have selected words from my own list ; which list, 

 perhaps, when corrected and enlarged, some day may appear in 

 this Journal. But this is a subject that requires co-operation. No 

 individual is likely to hear a tenth part of the old words, still 

 lingering among us The fishermen and miners make use of 

 different words from the agricultural labourers, and mechanics ; 

 and neighbouring districts much vary in their patois. I would 

 fain enlist the interest of my Reverend Brethren in this 

 subject. None have better opportunities than the country clergy 

 of noting down and collecting odd words as they go their parish 

 rounds. If one or two clergymen in every Deanery in the 

 Diocese would jot down the old words they hear, or have heard 

 in their respective districts, their united efforts would be the means 

 of recording, for future generations, what traces there are, in 1886, 

 of the old Cornish language. 



